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Troubled Times: Books on Gardening
Recommended by decastro@netcom.com (Richard A. De Castro), on misc.survivalism.
Home Hydroponics and How to Do It!
By Lem Jones et al, paperback, $10.80.
How to Grow More Vegetables
By John Jeavons. Published by Ten Speed Press. $16.95
[The] Hydroponic Hot House
By James DeKorne. An illustrated guide to alternative-energy greenhouse gardening. Directions for building
several different greenhouses, practical advice on harnessing solar energy, and many hard-earned suggestions for
increasing plant yield. 178 pages. $17.00
Humanure: A Guide to Composting Human Manure
Available from Amazon.com. Worth checking out if you’re planning on recycling your food back into your
hydroponic or gardening system.
Hunger Signs in Crops
A symposium, prepared by Firman E. Bear et al, published by American Society of Agronomy and National
Fertilizer Association, 1949. Describes deficiency diseases in plants and plant nutrition.
Hydroponic Food Production, A Definitive Guidebook of Soilless Food-Growing Methods
by Howard M. Resh. Technical and definitive, but nonetheless easy to understand and in depth, and excellent
resource.
Hydroponic Gardening: The Magic of Modern Hydroponics for the Home Gardener
By Raymond Bridwell, $11.65 paperback.
Michigan Field Crop Ecology
By Richard Harwood, a professor of crop and soil sciences at Michigan State University, holds a special faculty
position in sustainable agriculture created through an endowment by Flint's C.S. Mott Foundation. $12. Tells
farmers about raising healthy plants and animals by attending to healthy bacteria, fungi and nematodes in the dirt
of farm fields. Takes a scientific look at practices that were common in the years before farming was
revolutionized by agrochemical, powerful tractors and genetically improved plants.
[The] Natural Way of Farming, The Theory and Practice of Green Philosophy
By Mansanobu Fukuoka, based upon doing as little as possible to grow crops. Radical techniques include:
growing rice and clover at the same time; encasing seeds in clay pellets; never pruning his citrus trees. He also
found that he could double crop the same ground. Although his methods have been criticized, he consistently
manages to achieve the best yields in the Japan.
Organic Gardening
Magazine. Seed saving, earthworms, composting, companion planting, attracting beneficial insects, all are
covered in great depth here.
Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control
Edited by Barbara Ellis and Fern Marshall Bradley, published by Rodale Press, Book Reader's Service, 33 East
Minor Street, Emmaus, PA 18098. Recommended by Geri Guidetti of The Arc Institute.
Permaculture, A Designer's Manual
By Bill Mollinson, 500 pages that covers such subjects as underground housing, indoor gardening issues such as
soil and water, aquaculture, natural air conditioning, natural toilets, and composting. A complete survival
blueprint. ublished by Targari Publications, PO Box 1, Tyalgum NSW, Australia, PH61 66 793442, e-mail
perminst@peg.apc.org.
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